Re: [ANNOUNCE] Updated Packages Released.

Ville> <rant> I'd appreciate reports about anticipated problems Stephen> They weren't anticipated. Strictly speaking, it's your job to Stephen> anticipate this kind of problem; the rest of us will help if we can, Stephen> but realistically our primary attention is not going to be on Stephen> packages. You guys have been doing a good job[1], we're not going to Stephen> wrack our brains to project problems. :-/ well as a general rule i put a note in my announce email's about major changes to the packages so people who are on announce will find out if there is anything the need to do to make those new packages work, if thats not enough we might need to hack the package index to include those messages, i assume it would be possible to stick a message at the top of the pui buffer ? we could then add functionality to alow me to include a message about drastic changes to the packages i WILL need some help doing this if thats what we want to do Ville> with packages earlier in the process, preferably before Ville> they're released. </rant> R> i will second your rant R> please people we are new at this and if we do something that R> you dont like please tell us and we can discuss it Stephen> Well, in the future, consider bug reports like the ones from Stephen> Pre-Release testers whose cperl-mode, etc, stopped working a sign that Stephen> you should slow down on the release. _Any_ problem related to upgrade Stephen> or installation is a red flag. Backwards compatibility is extremely Stephen> hard to achieve, and harder to plan in advance, for things like this. Stephen> I just assumed that you would take some corrective action before Stephen> releasing the split packages. When you didn't, well, as you say Stephen> you're new at it, so all I could do was to suggest watching c.e.x. Stephen> Footnotes: Stephen> [1] In particular, I think general relations with package maintainers Stephen> is better even than when Steve Y was handling them. cool thaks but ville can probably take the credit for that :) -- XEmacs Advocate | Do not try the patience of Wizards, FreeBSD Devote | for they are subtle and quick to anger. Perl Hacker | - Elric (Technomage) , Babylon 5. Apache God | <mailto:rendhalver at xemacs.org> <GnuPG KeyID: AE51D190>